Real Leicester Stag Reviews: Legendary Weekend Diaries

Planning a stag do is one thing, but living it is another. We’ve collected real diaries from our groups to give you an inside look at what a weekend in Leicester really looks like. Below, read two legendary accounts of weekends spent in the heart of the Midlands, featuring tank battles, guided pub crawls, and unforgettable nightlife.

Review 1: Dave’s Legendary Tank Battle & Nightlife

My Leicester Stag weekend was awesome! My best mate Dave was in charge of organising it and he used a company called The Stag and Hen Experience to book it all up. The itinerary, as Dave told me, was two nights in a city centre hotel in Leicester, a pub crawl on the Friday night with some local girls to guide us and then on to a Nightclub. Saturday he’d organised Tank paintballing, which I didn’t even know was a thing but which I was really up for! Saturday night was due to be a proper Stag night, with admission lined up for a local strip club and the casino, with nightclub entry at the end. My weekend away was going to be a big one!

Checking In: City Centre Accommodation

We checked into our hotel which was a Travelodge and right in the city centre. We were three to a room and there were twelve of us and the rooms were pretty much what you would expect from a Travelodge. Clean and tidy, but basic.

We had a few hours to kill before we went out for the evening, so we had a bit of a mooch around the city centre. Most of it was pedestrianised and it seemed pretty busy with plenty of shops and bars and a pretty impressive Clock Tower in the middle.

Friday Night: Guided Pub Crawl & Bar Entry

We met up with the girls for the pub crawl at our hotel reception at 7.30pm. There were three of them and they were all pretty fit and dressed up as Beer Maids which was really cool. We hit three bars along the way, we started out in the Brewdog, then headed over to Walkabouts and finished off in Revolutions. The girls looked after the money and sorted the drinks out and they had a few drinking games for us to play as well.

They did a really good job of herding us together because by the last bar we’d all had quite a few drinks and shots and it must have been like herding cats for them! We ended the Friday night of my trip to Leicester with a visit to Waikiki nightclub where we had guest list admission sorted out as part of my weekend package. This club was as cheesy as the name suggested and it was just the ticket to end off an awesome night!

Saturday Activity: Tank Paintballing

Saturday morning we were collected by a Minibus from the hotel and they took us to the site where the Tank paintball was taking place, which was about half an hours’ drive outside the city centre. For me, this was the absolute highlight of the trip. The tanks were actual tanks and they were massive! We started off with a safety briefing and then we had a chance to drive the tanks round a massive track so everyone could get a feel for driving them.

We had a crew of three for each tank, one to drive, one to load and one to fire the 40mm paintball cannon and then it was one on one tank battles. We beat all comers with my tank, of course, with a superb display of teamwork! All in all we had about two hours on the Tanks and we all had massive smiles plastered all over our faces. If you are booking a package here, you have to give Tank Paintball a go! There was also a tank museum on site which we got free entry for and that was good for another hour or so, they had a Sherman Tank and a Centurion tank as well amongst the exhibit and you really don’t appreciate the size of them until you are standing next to one!

After then Tank Paintball we headed back to the hotel and round the corner to the Cosy Club for a late lunch and then back to the hotel to get ready for the evening ahead, the Saturday night of my Leicester Stag weekend was going to be a large one.

The Main Event: Casinos & Clubs

We started off hitting Revolutions bar to warm up because we’d had such a good time there the night before. We had a few bars and got a meal, which was pretty good for pub grub! We headed for the Strip club, Platinum Lace, for about 9pm and I’ve got to say it was a good choice, the girls were really tidy, the music really banging, and the staff were really professional and friendly. Everyone got at least one dance and I got pulled up onto the stage as the Stag for a bit of mild, ritual humiliation! Typical weekend behaviour!

After Platinum Lace we headed to the Grosvenor Casino to try our luck, this was set over two floors and there were loads of tables doing roulette, blackjack and poker, all the usual. I set myself a budget of £50 and when that was done it was time to round up all the lads and head off to Venom nightclub, which we had heard was really good. Guest list admission got us past the queues and then it was into this really dimly lit nightclub with this amazing laser show! The music was banging and the dancefloor was heaving and it really went off in there!

Leicester was a great place to have my Stag do. It was really friendly and a lot less expensive than a lot of other places. The guys at the Stag and Hen Experience really sorted us out, getting us such a central hotel and organising all the bars and clubs so that they were all really close to each other. The Tank paintballing was definitely an absolute winner and we’re all going to be talking about my weekend for years to come!

Review 2: Chris’s Central Send-Off

I love going on Stag dos. I mean, I know that everyone does, but I really love it. And my wife thinks that it’s just the novelty – because I don’t get to go out with the lads much when I am at home, but she doesn’t really understand that’s not the half of it. I love these weekends because the experience is always something unique, and will always be remembered – the number of WhatsApp chats I am still in because we all met on someone's stag do is insane!

So when it came time for my great mate Chris to get married, I was ready and eager to get going. We all agreed that it would be a Leicester stag do, being nice and central and we all live 2-3 hours away it was far enough away to feel like we’ve been away and close enough to get to easily. I was the first to pay my money, and his best man Laurence (his brother) got me to help with a few bits of the organising – and I also offered to be one of the drivers. Which is how, at just after nine on a Friday morning, I was outside Chris’ house waiting for him to get in the car so that we could head off onto our weekend to end all weekends.

Arrival & First Night Drinks

Leicester is about a two and a half hour drive from our houses, but we stopped for an early lunch on the way there, so it wasn’t until about two o clock that we arrived, swinging into a hotel car park to park up, check in and wait for the rest of the lads. The hotel staff were lovely, and we were quickly checked in and up to our rooms to drop off our bags. Pretty soon after we arrived, the other two car loads of lads showed up, and after a quick change of clothes the eleven of us were ready to head out for some nightlife.

We found ourselves in a nice, cheap, local pub not far from the hotel, which had one of those huge long tables in the window – a perfect place for eleven lads to sit, chat, drink and have a good laugh. When we arrived, we didn’t all know each other, as some of us were Chris’ childhood friends, some had gone to Uni with him and a couple were from his work. Laurence had brought a couple of games for us to resort to if needed, and after a few rounds of cards against humanity, we all felt like we’d known each other for years. We grabbed food in this pub as well (they did some amazing burgers that were ridiculously cheap), and suddenly realised that it was eight o clock in the evening! A quick chat was had and the decision was made to head out and explore some other treats in the form of pubs and bars that were nearby.

Which was what we did for the rest of the evening. Bouncing around from pub to pub and bar to bar, trying different drinks and all watching as the two single lads started trying to chat up as many local girls as they possibly could. Before we knew it, we’d found our way to a local indie rock nightclub, where we were jumping around and singing our socks off. I don’t know what time we left, and I don’t know how we got back to the hotel, but I do know that I was very grateful in the morning for the paracetamol I had brought with me! Stag weekends are one of those events where a ‘survival kit’ is essential.

Tank Driving Experience

When arranging the Leicester stag do activity for the Saturday, Laurence and I had discussed that it should be something memorable, something that none of us had done before – which ruled out some of the staple stag activities like paintball, go karting, quad bikes etc. Luckily the person who Laurence booked the weekend with suggested something that we would never have considered, but was a perfect fit for what we were after.

We piled in the cars and drove out to a specific address, and Chris was gobsmacked when he saw real, full size tanks driving around in the field. He was even more gobsmacked when we told him that our activity was all getting to drive one! We all took it in turns to drive one of these monsters, as well as have a ride as a passenger – it's harder to drive than you might imagine, but none of us crashed into anything or ran anyone over, so that was definitely a relief.

The Final Night Out

After our tank driving experiences, we all decided to head back to the hotel and grab a couple of hours relaxation time before going for a big night out. Well at least that was the plan. What actually happened was that we made it back to the hotel, everyone went to their rooms to freshen up, and then twenty minutes later half of us were back in the nearby pub. Pretty soon everyone had joined us, and we were discussing our plans for our big Saturday night out.

Laurence had a much clearer plan for the Saturday night of our Leicester stag do, as the person he’d booked the weekend with had helped him get some guaranteed guest list entries to a variety of bars and pubs, so we took full advantage of all of them, traipsing around and experiencing a wide range of venues. We then had a long and involved discussion on the pavement about where to go next, and we ended up settling on a strip club, so off we went – which was an amazing decision, as it was one of the best strip clubs I have ever been to! After an hour or so there, we decided to move on to our ultimate destination, one of the biggest nightclubs in Leicester. Unlike the Friday night where we’d found ourselves in an indie rock club, this was a more traditional high energy club with a huge dancefloor and drinks that were overpriced, but not so badly that we wanted to leave.

And that’s where we danced the stag night away, drinks in hand, celebrating Chris’s future wedding. A perfect end to a perfect stag do in Leicester. We got thrown out when the club closed and staggered back to the hotel to crash out for a few hours before all driving home.

In short, Leicester was an absolutely amazing location, and I cannot recommend it highly enough for any stag do you are planning!

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